Ajax's fairy tale was cut short in a painful, brutal way.
The biggest miracle of this year's Champions League, the team that beat Real Madrid, Juventus and Tottenham away from home in the knockout phase, will not play in the final.
And she was incredibly close...
"We were very close," explained Erik ten Haag, the coach of the "Spearmen".
Neither a 2:0 lead after 35 minutes of the second leg nor a 3:0 aggregate score was enough for the Dutch - three goals from Tottenham striker Lucas Moura in the second half, the third in the sixth minute of stoppage time, erased everything Ajax had been creating this season. in Europe.
"We deserved to go through, but that last second..." Ten Haag continued.
"I told the players at halftime that it's not over yet, and we were 3:0 on aggregate. You could see it in the attitude of the Tottenham players, they still believed."
Ajax was not even lucky...
"That post by Ziješ at 2:2, if it had been a goal it would have been the end for Tottenham. But, I can't blame anyone. We had an incredible season in the Champions League, we grew as a team. Unfortunately, that process is sometimes very painful." , Ten Haag pointed out.
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